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Energy looking outside for security help
From: William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:32:30 -0500
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/1023/web-energy-10-24-00.asp BY Judi Hasson 10/24/2000 Faced with continuing security lapses at its nuclear facilities, the Energy Department has decided to hire outside security experts to tame the problem. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced last week that he would carry out recommendations from the National Nuclear Security Administration on ways to tighten security at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The recommendations, contained in a report by NNSA Administrator John Gordon, include bringing in outside experts to develop tighter security policies and creating a new position at the University of California to manage security for the weapons laboratories. "By subcontracting, they draw on a lot of expertise. Certainly, youll find that these subcontractors employ a lot of former FBI and [Defense Department] types," said John Belluardo, director of public relations for DOE in California. Other steps being taken in the security arena: * DOE will commission the Center for Strategic and International Studies to study how to strengthen security at the agency. * Richard Kendall was named the first chief information officer at Los Alamos. His job will be to develop and direct an integrated policy for information management. Since 1999, he has directed cybersecurity enhancements at Los Alamos. *==============================================================* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen Alfred. M. Gray, USMC ================================================================ C4I.org - Computer Security, & Intelligence - http://www.c4i.org *==============================================================* ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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